Rami Shapiro

A Scientific View of God

By Rami Shapiro | July 29, 2015

A God That Could Be Real: Spirituality, Science, and the Future of Our Planet

by Nancy Abrams

Beacon Press, 2015

Nancy Abrams needed a higher power. As one of the premiere science writers of our time, she found both the Iron Age gods of the Abrahamic faiths and the pseudo-scientific mysticisms of New Age gurus wanting. So she turned to what she knew best: science. What she found is set forth in her important, cogent, and challenging new book, A God That Could Be Real: Spirituality, Science, and the Future of Our Planet. This is not another book about the clash of science and religion.

Articles

My Response to “A Portrait of Jewish Americans”

By Rami Shapiro | October 25, 2013

Are Jews in existential free-fall? According to the latest Pew Research Center report, 22 percent of Jews have abandoned Judaism and only 15 percent identify Judaism as essential to being Jewish. Rabbi Rami Shapiro delivers a stirring response.

Spirituality

Neti Neti: A Manifesto to End Religious Violence

By Rami Shapiro | January 1, 2011

Religions are intrinsically human; we make them in our own image, after our own likeness, often to conjure divine sanction for what we know is evil. Religion isn’t evil, but it is dangerous.